Research updates
New brain tumor research and news, in plain language. The marks on each item show how far along the evidence is. More marks mean it has been tested more.
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A simple way to record how much meningioma is left after surgery
A glowing dye helped surgeons see tumor tissue that was left behind.
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MRI clues may point to a gene change in glioma
A brain MRI may give doctors an early clue about a glioma's gene change.
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A letter about seizures in children with meningioma
This short letter looks at seizures in children who have a meningioma.
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Walking ability at hospital discharge may hint at how glioblastoma goes
People who could walk better when they left the hospital tended to live longer.
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Brain invasion alone may not mean a more aggressive meningioma
Some grade 2 meningiomas came back less often than their grade suggests.
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Removing all of a spinal tumor gave the best tumor control
Doctors looked back at past records and found that taking out the whole tumor worked best.
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Men had more early tumor regrowth after full meningioma surgery
In this study, men with a grade II meningioma had more early regrowth than women.
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Testing the backup software that double checks radiation doses
Radiation teams use backup software to check doses, and one type checked more accurately than the other.
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Most breast cancer tumors in the brain carry gene changes drugs may target
Most of these brain tumors had gene changes that some drugs are already aimed at.
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Rare cases where brain tumors in babies went away on their own
In a few rare cases, a brain tumor in a baby went away on its own.
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Facial pain caused by a brain tumor, and how doctors treat it
When a tumor causes severe facial pain, surgery often eases that pain better than radiation does.
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Brain wiring may help explain why seizures go with longer survival
People with glioblastoma who have seizures often live longer, and brain wiring may be part of the reason.
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What brain scans show in rare brain lymphomas
Doctors review how rare lymphoma tumors in the brain look on scans.
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A Review of Brain Tumor Care in Children
This is a review of how children with brain tumors do and what new treatments are being studied.
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What we know about brain tumor surgery in adults 75 or older
This review gathered past studies on brain tumor surgery in very old adults.
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One surgery treated both a burst brain vessel and a large tumor
Doctors fixed a burst blood vessel and removed a brain tumor in the same operation.
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New clues on brain scans for one type of brain tumor
Doctors found two new signs on MRI scans that may help spot one kind of brain tumor before surgery.
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An unusual blood vessel seen in the eye of a person with an optic nerve tumor
This short report is about a blood vessel sign doctors may see in the eye when a slow tumor presses on the eye nerve.
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A targeted drug for children with slow-growing brain tumors in Lebanon
Four children in Lebanon took a targeted drug for a slow-growing brain tumor, and all of them got better in some way.
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Nurse-led care may help brain tumor patients who have trouble swallowing
In one hospital study, a care plan led by nurses helped people with brain tumors swallow better than usual care did.